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New Year’s Resolutions

In this Southern North American region, it is expected of the women to make impassioned New Year's resolutions to lose weight and look younger.
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The Sounds of Morning

I stepped outside for a few minutes about 6:15am. The sky was just beginning to lighten in the east, and the waning moon was high and bright in the west.
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Thanksgiving, My Grace

I’ve been, naturally, thinking about the whole thankfulness concept, and what, in particular am I thankful/grateful for right now. I was reminded of the mess we went through with child #4 starting when he was about a year old. He had allergies, serious ones: to cats, cockroaches, and dust mites. When I say serious, I [...]
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The Beauty Monster

The cult of personal appearance – like a creature from a horror movie – is eating away at our brains and hearts.
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Lectures are Good, but…

On letting children be children – as opposed to Future Einsteins in Disposable Diapers, or for that matter, Baby Stalins.
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A Southern Autumn

I’ve lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don’t live here won’t think we’re all uneducated hicks…then again maybe you will, but if you do, I can tell you with certainty that we don’t care. I’ve [...]
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